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tlaffourtit
Nomad
Sep 08, 2014

inverter, batteries,converter,tranfer switch, etc.

We own a 2015 thor ace 30.2 motor home. We are installing a 5000w pure sine wave inverter using 870ah batteries(12v). We are using 12v batteries because I was given them for free and they are deep ce...
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mena661
Explorer
Sep 10, 2014
2oldman wrote:
Watts.

Gonna need at least 6 batteries to run that kind of stuff.
X2, watts not amps. What happened is normal. Running heavy loads on lower capacity batteries will do this. Also, 6V's will have a larger voltage drop with heavy loads than 12V batts. You can still do this with 6V's though. How long do you need to be able to run those devices?

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